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US 9414115 W 19941208

US 16731793 A 19931213

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[origin: WO9516989A1] A control system and method for controlling the speed of the spindle motor rotating disks in a disk drive system where the transducers ride or fly upon a medium, air or some other viscous substance between said disks and said transducers thereby exerting a load upon said spindle motor, said load having a non uniform profile across the disks from the inner diameter to the outer diameter of said disks where said load at any location across said disk is a function of the type of medium upon which said transducers rides or files above said disks, said location itself and the physical environment being experienced by said medium at any given instant of time. The control system comprises storage means for storing speed control data for defining the power to be applied to the spindle motor to maintain the spindle motor at a desired speed as a function of the presently selected track address and a control means for selecting the speed control data for a presently selected track address and providing the speed control data to the spindle control system such that the speed of the spindle motor is maintained at the specified speed. The method comprises the steps of a) generating speed data for maintaining the spindle motor at a specified speed as a function of the track being addressed by the disk drive system; b) storing the speed data in a first table in a memory in the disk drive system; c) retrieving the stored speed data for the track presently being addressed by the disk drive system; and d) providing the retrieved speed data to the speed control means for controlling the speed of the spindle motor.